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years; 1848-79 (not 1871, as stated by MB. HABLAND-OXLEY), and where he also died. This house was recently pulled down, and the site is now covered by the Hamp- stead General Hospital, Hampstead Green.

The next was placed on Lawn Bank, John Street, where John Keats lived, and whence he went to Rome, never to return.

Then followed another, reminding the inquirer that at Vane House, Rosslyn Hill, lived two eminent men (but at different times), Sir Harry Vane and Bishop Butler, the latter the author of ' The Analogy of Religion,' &c. This house is situated some little distance from the roadway, so the tablet has been placed on one of the brick pillars at the entrance.

Bolton House, Windmill Hill, has another, recording the fact that Joanna Baillie lived there ; near by, in the Grove, on New Grove House, is one stating that George du Maurier, the Punch artist, resided there ; whilst yet another is at Combe Edge, Branch Hill, Frognal, where Mrs. Rundle Charles, author of the ' Chronicles of the Schonberg- Cotta Family,' lived.

The first four were placed by, and at the expense of, the Society of Arts ; and those relating to John Keats and Sir Harry Vane at my suggestion and initiation.

Those denoting the residences of Du Maurier and Mrs. Rundle Charles, although of exactly the same design as the former ones, were put up by private enterprise, and the curious in such matters may like to know that the cost of these plaques (including fixing) is about five pounds each.

Another tablet, but of a different type altogether, on No. 139, Finchley Road, near Swiss Cottage, records that Madame Tietjens, the gifted singer, resided there from 1868 to 1873.

A movement is on foot to place one on No. 18, Church Row, where lived two famous Hampsteadians, Thomas and John James Park, father and son the former styled the " poetical antiquary," the latter being Hampstead 's first historian.

So, with these alone, we may claim to have had a fair number of illustrious per- sonages amongst us ; but there are many more. E. E. NEWTON.

7, Achilles Road, West End, Hampstead, N.W.

THOMAS KEYES. (See 9 S. ii. 48, 451.) At the latter reference I gave some par- ticulars as to the husband of Lady Mary Grey, sister of Queen Jane Dudley, but could not answer the question, " Where and when did he die ? " I have recently dis-

covered in the Archdeaconry Act Books at the Probate Registry, Canterbury, that administration was granted on 24 Sept., 1571, to his son Thomas, and that Keyes is therein described as late of the parish of All Saints, Canterbury. R. J. FYNMOBE. Sandgate.

" CABOLMCKING " = GOSSIPING. An old man in Sheffield said of two women : " There they are, cabollicking again ; they wain't do any work." The word is not in the dictionaries. S. O. ADDY.

" Bus " FOB " OMNIBUS." In 1907 " motor-bus " has become official alas ! Worse than " tart " for " pie " (ante, p. 134).

P. T. G.

PALGBAVE'S ' GOLDEN TBEASUBY.' The ' Additional Poems ' in Mr. Frowde's edition of ' The Golden Treasury ' form a pleasing supplement to this anthology. Especially commendable is the inclusion of one or two gems from Landor, whose name has been too long absent from its list of authors. It might, however, be still more interesting to see Messrs. Macmillan's augmented edition carried out as far as possible on the original lines.

Some adverse criticism on the new edition seems to be called for. Excellent as ' The Golden Treasury ' has ever been on the aesthetic side, the accuracy of the book is not a remarkable feature. Mr. Frowde's edition in some particulars does not improve upon the original in this respect. Some years ago the late Mr. Palgrave's attention was publicly drawn to the fact that he had erroneously classified a nineteenth-century lyric among the productions of the seven- teenth-century song-writers. This was 'The Loveliness of Love,' by George Darley. This lyric was subsequently withdrawn from the later authorized editions of ' The Golden Treasury ' ; but now it makes a fresh appear- ance, under its false character, in the edition issued from the Oxford University Press.

Again, why do the editors of this delightful collection persistently cling to the two apocryphal stanzas of Burns's ' Of a' the airts ' ? These stanzas have no place in standard editions of the poet, as the Oxford Press ' Burns,' edited by Mr. Logie Robert- son, and the ' Selected Poems of Burns.' by Mr. Andrew Lang.

Finally, I think a careful comparison of the ' Golden Treasury ' chronologies with those of the ' D.N.B.' would bring out the utility of some emendations upon the dates of the poetical handbook. W. B.